Auditions for the upcoming Taos Onstage season are happening Saturday, August 23rd and Sunday, August 24th at 2pm at TISA: 118 Toalne St, Taos 87571. This year’s auditions are for the entire 2025-2026 season, so come on down and check out which plays we’re doing, the roles available, and put yourself in the running for one of our characters!

Auditions for the upcoming Taos Onstage season are happening Saturday, August 23rd and Sunday, August 24th at 2pm at TISA: 118 Toalne St, Taos 87571. This year’s auditions are for the entire 2025-2026 season, so come on down and check out which plays we’re doing, the roles available, and put yourself in the running for one of our characters!

Presented by Charlotte Keefe & Miel Tafoya

At Backstage: Southside Plaza, 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Suite A

All experience levels are welcome!

$40 for the six-week session. Drop-ins are welcome for $10 each class.

Sign up at taosonstage@gmail.com

For more information, call 575-224-1066

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

6-8 PM

At Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

BEGINS MARCH 9, 2025

6-8 PM

At  Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

BEGINS MARCH 9, 2025

6-8 PM

At  Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

BEGINS MARCH 9, 2025

6-8 PM

At  Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

BEGINS MARCH 9, 2025

6-8 PM

At  Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP

BEGINS MARCH 9, 2025

6-8 PM

At  Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza) 

What is the New Plays Workshop?

            The purpose of the workshop is to support playwrights with developing new plays. It is also a place where actors –experienced and inexperienced—can read the plays aloud. Other interested folks can come and listen.  It is a time and place where the theatre community can share ideas.

Playwrights interested in hearing portions of their play read aloud should:

1.    Submit an eight page maximum excerpt of their play.  The font should be no smaller than 12.

2.    Include a short one- page cover with a brief scene description, cast list, phone number and email

3.    Send to taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

4.    All submissions will be reviewed and writers will be contacted regarding performance dates.

Cost

There is no charge

 When and Where

Second Sunday of each month at the Taos Onstage Backstage

1350 Paseo del Pueblo, Suite A (Southside Plaza)

 2025 Dates

March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12

 For more information contact taosnewworks2025@gmail.com

March 1-5:30 PM

At The Backstage

 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Suite A

 Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief

By Paula Vogel

Directed by Rich Greywolf

Roles for 3 women

Integral and Reimagined women

 of Shakespeare’s Othello

Desdemona—wife of Othello (revels in her bawdy conquests…Othello’s entire encampment)

Emilia—Desdemona’s servant

Bianca—a majestic whore of Cypress

For more information contact taosonstage@gmail.com

February 28 - 5:30 PM

At The Backstage

 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Suite A

 Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief

By Paula Vogel

Directed by Rich Greywolf

Roles for 3 women

Integral and Reimagined women

 of Shakespeare’s Othello

Desdemona—wife of Othello (revels in her bawdy conquests…Othello’s entire encampment)

Emilia—Desdemona’s servant

Bianca—a majestic whore of Cypress

For more information contact taosonstage@gmail.com

Taos Onstage New Plays Workshop 2025
When: First Sunday of each month at 6pm starting January 2025.
Where: Taos Onstage rehearsal space: Southside Plaza ,1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur

Submission Guidelines:
•Digitally submit 7 pages or less in PDF format –no other formats will be accepted.
• Font—14 pt Courier (regular)
• Taos Onstage will only print 7 pages including the Title page, etc. to be read aloud at the workshop.
•Must be submitted by midnight the day before each workshop—late submissions will not be accepted.
• The first 7 submissions will be read at the workshop. The rest will be put in the que for the
following month.
• There will be time after each reading for constructive feedback if author requests it.
• In order for the submission to be read aloud, the author MUST be present at the workshop.

 Email submissions to:
taosonstage@gmail.com
***NOTE***
This is NOT the annual Taos Onstage play writing competition, although you may submit portions of
your competition play to this workshop.

Auditions for The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, directed by Charlotte Keefe

Sunday, December 1 at 1:30 pm and Thursday, December 5 at 6 pm at the Taos Onstage rehearsal space located at Southside Plaza, 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur

The play is in response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, in Laramie Wyoming. The Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie six times and conducted over 200 interviews in an attempt to understand what happened and why. Roles will include 8-10 actors, male and female, and a variety of ages. Each actor will portray multiple citizens of Laramie. The portrayals are monologues.

There will be 8 performances: February 20-23; 27-28, March 1-2. Contact taosonstage@gmail.com for more information.

Auditions for The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, directed by Charlotte Keefe

Sunday, December 1 at 1:30 pm and Thursday, December 5 at 6 pm at the Taos Onstage rehearsal space located at Southside Plaza, 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur

The play is in response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, in Laramie Wyoming. The Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie six times and conducted over 200 interviews in an attempt to understand what happened and why. Roles will include 8-10 actors, male and female, and a variety of ages. Each actor will portray multiple citizens of Laramie. The portrayals are monologues.

There will be 8 performances: February 20-23; 27-28, March 1-2. Contact taosonstage@gmail.com for more information.

Auditions for “Wonder of the World” by David Lindsay-Abaire

Monday August 26 and Tuesday August 27 at the WildFlower Playhouse.